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I arrived at Queen's in October 1969 fresh from rowing in successful crews at CAI so it was naturally assumed success would continue. My father was not so sure, having said to me a month beforehand that Queen's didn't seem to be very good at rowing in recent years. From a rugby man, this was …

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Rowing at Queen's: 1962-1968 by Stevie Smith 1961-62 I have just read Dusty Anderson’s account of the 1961/62 season and found it very interesting to compare his ‘bird’s eye view’ with my ‘worm’s eye view’. At that stage, Dusty was an experienced oarsman and respected coach who was able to take an objective overview of …

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A Personal View I have chosen to write about this decade, or rather undecade, in Queen’s History because in 1952 we won the Senior Eights (Elite) Championship for the first time and in 1962 for, alas, the last time to date. My brother Sam rowed 2 in the 1952 crew, I stroked the senior crews …

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Day-Break The years between 1938 and 1951 began inauspiciously and ended with Queen’s moving into a boathouse of their own. In 1938 there were three very active clubs boating out of B.C.B.C. premises in Balfour Avenue and, on many occasions, congestion at the slip led to crews having to wait for a considerable time to …

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Unfinished Odyssey Rowing began at Queen’s on 6th May 1864, when T. G. Houston, Matthew Leitch, S. J. McMullan, W. H. Dodd and several other students, who intended to stay in Belfast during the long vacation, founded the Queen’s College Rowing Club. Houston was appointed as secretary and Leitch treasurer [1]. It was decided to …

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